[Flyboy]

Originally Posted by Derek

Yep the cop lying injured in the road was instigating loads of violence.

The Police have gone out their way to avoid confrontation in previous incidents, resisting putting on full public order gear until the hail of misiles gets ridiculous.

Yes street gangs have access to firearms. If you think they would use the demo as an excuse to shoot at cops then you really are as stupid as you are coming across in this thread.

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One officer out of several thousand and it's already been explained away. Her epaulettes were on her hi-viz which officers had to change out of due to the petrol bombs being thrown their way.

Flammable Hi-Viz jackets + petrol bombs = a very bad mixture. Thats why they reverted to the flame retardant overalls later in the day.

Sorry, but I hold that with as much credibility as there being a Father Christmas. She could have easily changed her epaulettes when she changed her jacket. Are you really expecting us to believe she was the only one?

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Originally Posted by Derek

99% of the cops I've seen on video have their shoulder numbers clearly visible.

Well, I heard there was least five thousand police officers there, that would mean at least fifty of them hid their identification. I can't see why that doesn't worry anyone.

I've already covered the 'treatment' of the professional protestor who seems to play on his disability when it suits him. I don't see any problem with the way he was dealt with under the circumstances. Being in a wheelchair doesn't automatically exempt you from being removed from an area.

So, he is considered to be a bit of an irritant and that makes it okay to treat him like that. It may not make him exempt, but it does mean he should be treated in a way according to training. Is that how the police are trained to move someone along, who is in a wheelchair? What is the correct and authorised way to move someone in wheelchair?

Joke about shooting people? Oh I'm sorry that JOKES made by off-duty officers clearly in jest need to be justified.

What makes it okay because they were "off-duty?"

Funnily enough I do. The Met commissioner does as well. If there were so many cops doing it how come they all managed to avoid being caught on video?

But you have already conceded that at least fifty of them did hide their identification.